Documentation error for data.restore() in package "foreign" (was Re: [R] Import problem with S-Plus 7.0 dataset)

BTW, the help file for data.restore says:

Value: an R version of the S3 object.

It looks like this may need correction (when I try this function out, it
returns the file name, not the object restored from the file.)

I tried this in R 2.4.0:

sessionInfo()

R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
[7] "base"

other attached packages:
 foreign     ncdf
"0.8-17"    "1.6"

-- Tony Plate

(redirected from an old thread on R-help -- I was waiting until I had R
2.4.0 installed so that I could verify that this was still a problem.
Apologies if it has been fixed since then)

Richard M. Heiberger wrote:

It looks like it works.  The result you printed is
the name of the file that data.store read.  The name of the
variable is the same as the name you called it in S-Plus.

type
   data[1:5,]
and you should see your data.frame.